Kim Dotcom, born Kim Schmitz on 21 January 1974, also known as Kimble and Kim Tim Jim Vestor, is a German born Internet entrepreneur, currently residing in New Zealand. He rose to fame in Germany in the 1990s as a teenage internet tycoon, but was subsequently convicted of insider trading and embezzlement. He is the founder of Megaupload and its associated websites. On 20 January 2012, the New Zealand Police placed him in custody in response to US charges of criminal copyright infringement in relation to his Megaupload website. Dotcom was accused of costing the entertainment industry $500 million through pirated content uploaded to his file-sharing site, which had 180 million registered users. Dotcom has vigorously denied the charges, and is fighting the attempt to extradite him to the United States.
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